Word: points
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...than an undergraduate can have - find faults and remedies hitherto unsuspected. The "but" to this, of course, is, first, that subscriptions would fall off - that a man would give ten dollars each to four branches of athletics, where he would refuse forty dollars to the four combined - a doubtful point - and, secondly, that between the various branches of athletics there would always be question - fierily debated - of the propositions of the general fund due to each...
...sermon in Appleton Chapel last night was preached by Rev. F. G. Peabody on Dan. 6 chap. 10 verse, "His window being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem." "The way a man habitually faces is the great point of importance in the church, in the age and in everyone of us. Nearness will not bind, distance will not separate us except as our frontage, our landscape is alike or different. Everyone may look toward other far-off spiritual landscapes, although he have first to cut away from before his window the tangled vine of the perplexing world. Open your spiritual...
...first page to-day with satisfaction and delight. Hereafter there will be no doubt about the best nine in the League. Four games with each club will settle the superiority, if there is any to be settled. Our friends in New York will not be able any longer to point to us and say that Harvard is afraid to admit Columbia. Columbia has been admitted and we venture to say that there is not a Harvard man in existence who is not glad of the fact. Her victories last year put her above the other college nines in public opinion...
While I, too, "am a thorough believer in the elective system, yet I do not believe that any one is entitled to the degree of A. B." who has not done a certain amount of brain work, who has not been educated up to a certain point. It is by no means necessary that A has done the same work in kind as B for him to receive the same degree; but it is necessary that they be equally educated, equally equipped for future work along their respective lines. For example, just how much French and German is an equivalent...
...perhaps superfluous to point out the effects of the Frence Revolution as an example of the influence of Franch on our literature - evidence enough of this will be found in the work of the so-called Lake Poets. But on the fact of that influence I would lay stress, and consequently on the sequent fact that much of the matter and of the form - allowing of course for intrinsic difference of language - of our lighter literature has come from Paris - for instance, the kind of short stories that seems to be the prevailing type of American writing...